This week's newsletter addresses Radio Medicine and the adrenal glands and the role that both play with our health. First, a brief summary of the problems we have seen caused by Radio Medicine and our suggested way of handling these problems.
RADIO MEDICINE MAY BE YOUR PROBLEM
In last week's newsletter, Novus Psychoactive Drug Health Package, we announced a program to help people who have been given drugs to handle symptoms (Radio Medicine victims). Under this new program, a person can come to Novus and stay in the area and receive a diagnosis and treatment that will allow them not only to withdraw from the psychoactive drug (which includes narcotics like OxyContin) but also work with doctors who are trained at locating the actual physical problem and treating that.
You see, far too many people in our country are given a psychoactive drug not to actually address and treat the cause of a problem but to simply "turn up the volume" to mask the symptoms. This happens all the time with "pain management." Instead of seeking to handle the cause of the pain, all too often the treatment is to give a narcotic drug to block out the pain signals being generated from the cause of the pain which are going to the brain. If the cause of the pain is handled, then the pain goes away and there is no need to take the narcotic drugs.
Maybe the prescribing doctor listened to the paid drug company doctors who recommended the drug. Maybe they listened to the drug company representatives. Maybe they actually didn't know the cause but hoped that this would somehow alleviate the symptoms until the body healed itself. Predictably, in most cases, the actual physiological problem just gets worse.
At some point, the person realizes that the symptoms are not being masked, and taking enough of the psychoactive drug to mask the symptoms creates many other unwanted problems.
They then decide to withdraw from the drug and find Novus Medical Detox Center. Normally we can help them safely and more comfortably withdraw from the psychoactive drug, but this is rarely enough. Sometimes, in the case of narcotics like OxyContin, the unpleasant symptoms were actually largely caused by the drug and just withdrawing from the drug results in relief. Sometimes, a person no longer feels pain but has become dependent on the drug (has very unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when they try to stop), and withdrawing from the narcotic is all that is required.
More often with other psychoactive benzodiazepine drugs like Xanax or Ativan, antidepressants like Zoloft or Paxil, or antipsychotics like Seroquel or Zyprexa, the person who withdraws from these psychoactive drugs finds that it unmasks the untreated physiological condition that was creating the symptoms, and they have never really handled that problem.
A person still must handle the actual physiological problem. The majority of our patients, no longer taking narcotic drugs like OxyContin, who have located the cause of the underlying physiological problem, found that it involved a problem with their endocrine system.
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
The endocrine system is composed of glands throughout the body. These glands release hormones (chemical messengers) into the bloodstream or the fluid surrounding cells. These hormones interact with receptors in our cells in various ways. They activate these receptors and either alter the cell's existing proteins or instruct the cell in the building of new proteins. Both of these actions create reactions throughout the body.
The endocrine system regulates all biological processes in the body from conception through adulthood and into old age, including the development of the brain and nervous system, the growth and function of the reproductive system, as well as the body's metabolism and blood sugar levels. The female ovaries, male testes, and pituitary, thyroid, and adrenal glands are major constituents of the endocrine system.
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